Kicks Count argues that the devices, also known as home dopplers, can provide false reassurance to pregnant women and could lead to stillbirth.

The charity's chief executive, Elizabeth Hutton, was joined in Downing Street on Wednesday (July 12) by the charity's ambassador Emma Crosby, a journalist whose first baby was born healthy thanks to advice from Kicks Count, and Vicki McNelly, who lost her baby after relying on a home doppler.